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bug#64928: 29.1; format-decode-buffer fails for de646 and duden
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#64928: 29.1; format-decode-buffer fails for de646 and duden |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 16:46:53 +0300 |
> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:52:40 +0200
>
> The following command results in an error:
>
> M-x format-decode-buffer RET de646 RET
> Format decoding failed
> recode: Request `iso646-ge:latin1' is erroneous
>
> The "duden" encoding does not work either:
>
> M-x format-decode-buffer RET duden RET
> Format decoding failed
> /bin/bash: line 1: diac: command not found
>
> A trivial patch is included below.
>
> (Not sure if fixing this is even worth the effort. AFAICS Recode never
> recognised a charset "iso646-ge". The ISO 646 variants were added
> in 1993 with recode-3.3, and its label for the German variant was
> "iso646de" even back then. So nobody has reported this since almost
> 30 years.)
I see no harm in installing this on master.
Thanks.